Hartwood railway station

Hartwood railway station is a railway station serving Hartwood in North Lanarkshire, Scotland. It is on the Shotts Line, 19 miles (31 km) east of Glasgow Central towards Edinburgh Waverley. The station has two platforms, connected by a stairway footbridge. It is managed by Abellio ScotRail.

Hartwood
Scottish Gaelic: Coille an Daimh[1]
Hartwood following electrification in 2019
Location
PlaceHartwood
Local authorityNorth Lanarkshire
Coordinates55.8112°N 3.8389°W / 55.8112; -3.8389
Grid referenceNS848590
Operations
Station codeHTW
Managed byAbellio ScotRail
Number of platforms2
Live arrivals/departures, station information and onward connections
from National Rail Enquiries
Annual rail passenger usage*
2014/15 17,186
2015/16 16,774
2016/17 14,912
2017/18 13,566
2018/19 11,628
Passenger Transport Executive
PTEStrathclyde Partnership for Transport
History
Key datesOpened 1 May 1889 (1 May 1889)
Original companyCleland and Midcalder Line
Pre-groupingCaledonian Railway
Post-groupingLMSR
National Rail – UK railway stations
  • Annual estimated passenger usage based on sales of tickets in stated financial year(s) which end or originate at Hartwood from Office of Rail and Road statistics. Methodology may vary year on year.

The station was built within the grounds of Hartwood Hospital, a major psychiatric hospital, which used to provide the bulk of the passenger traffic. A short mineral branch once ran from the far side of the northern platform to the main hospital buildings to transport coal and other commodities.[2]

This hospital was closed in 1998, with its services transferred to the nearby Hartwoodhill Hospital, but this is too far away to make use of the railway station. The station was partially rebuilt in 2018 and the line electrified with full electric services starting from the May 19th change of timetable in 2019.

Services

It is currently served, Monday to Saturday, by one Abellio ScotRail stopping service each hour from Glasgow Central to Edinburgh Waverley and return. One train a day from Edinburgh terminates at Motherwell and the first eastbound train of the day begins there.[3] On Sundays, there is now a limited (six trains per day each) way service to both Glasgow and Edinburgh throughout the year, which is supplemented on Sundays on the run up to Christmas by additional hourly trains to/from Glasgow via Whifflet.

Preceding station National Rail Following station
Shotts   Abellio ScotRail
Shotts Line
   Cleland
  Historical railways  
Shotts   Cleland and Midcalder Line
Caledonian Railway
   OMOA

References
  1. Brailsford, Martyn, ed. (December 2017) [1987]. "Gaelic/English Station Index". Railway Track Diagrams 1: Scotland & Isle of Man (6th ed.). Frome: Trackmaps. ISBN 978-0-9549866-9-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  2. Lanarkshire Sheet XIII.SW, Surveyed: 1897, Published: 1899
  3. GB National Rail Timetable May 2016, Table 224 (Network Rail)

Sources
  • Butt, R. V. J. (1995). The Directory of Railway Stations: details every public and private passenger station, halt, platform and stopping place, past and present (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-508-7. OCLC 60251199.
  • Jowett, Alan (March 1989). Jowett's Railway Atlas of Great Britain and Ireland: From Pre-Grouping to the Present Day (1st ed.). Sparkford: Patrick Stephens Ltd. ISBN 978-1-85260-086-0. OCLC 22311137.
  • Yonge, John (May 1987). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). British Rail Track Diagams - Book 1: ScotRail (1st ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0948-6.
  • Yonge, John (February 1993). Gerald Jacobs (ed.). Railway Track Diagams - Book 1: Scotland and the Isle of Man (2nd ed.). Exeter: Quail Map Company. ISBN 0-9006-0995-8.
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